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Our captain Dave, working with a team from CIMWI and the Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol, captured a severly wounded California sea lion. The sea lion had a very deep cut encircling its neck, called a necklace wound, caused by being wrapped in nylon monofilament fishing line. The animal was captured and is being treated before being released back into the wild.

Captain Dave points out one of the many clusters of rafting California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) in the Channel. Dave is trained as a marine mammal rescue person, and has decades of experience with sea lions.